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title: "15 Perfect Quotes By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
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> [A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/a-mathematician-is-only-perfect-insofar-as-he-is-a-perfect-man/)

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> [ Only the heart without a stain knows perfect ease. \[Ger., Ganz unbefleckt geniesst sich nur das Herz.\] ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/only-the-heart-without-a-stain-knows-perfect-ease-ger-ganz-unbefleckt/)

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> [Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/let-no-one-be-like-another-yet-everyone-like-the-highest-how-is-this/)

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> [Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/could-we-perfect-human-nature-we-might-also-expect-a-perfect-state-of/)

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> [Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/perfection-is-the-measure-of-heaven-and-the-wish-to-be-perfect-the/)

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> [The nude is the perfect expression of freedom. Freedom to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/the-nude-is-the-perfect-expression-of-freedom-freedom-to-be/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

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> [Even the lowliest, provided he is whole, can be happy, and in his own . way, perfect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/even-the-lowliest-provided-he-is-whole-can-be-happy-and-in-his-own/)

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> [Never let a day pass without looking at some perfect work of art, hearing some great piece of music and reading, in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/never-let-a-day-pass-without-looking-at-some-perfect-work-of-art/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

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> [An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/an-angel-nonsense-everybody-so-describes-his-mistress-and-yet-i-find/)

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> [Nature is so perfect that the Trinity couldn't have fashioned her any more perfect. She is an organ on which our Lord…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/nature-is-so-perfect-that-the-trinity-couldn-t-have-fashioned-her-any/)

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> [Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/everything-perfect-in-its-kind-has-to-transcend-its-own-kind-it-must/)

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> [The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/the-thought-of-death-leaves-me-in-perfect-peace-for-i-have-a-firm/)

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> [The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/the-style-of-writing-required-in-the-great-world-is-distinguished-by/)

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> [As to the value of conversions, God alone can judge. God alone can know how wide are the steps which the soul…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/as-to-the-value-of-conversions-god-alone-can-judge-god-alone-can-know/)

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> [Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/men-are-so-inclined-to-content-themselves-with-what-is-commonest-the-2/)

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## Other authors on Perfect

## More by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

> [True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/true-works-of-art-contain-their-own-theory-and-give-us-the/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

> [I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/i-never-believed-in-trying-to-do-anything-whatever-i-set-out-to-do-i/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

> [All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/all-lyrical-work-must-as-a-whole-be-perfectly-intelligible-but-in/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

> [We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/we-know-accurately-only-when-we-know-little-with-knowledge-doubt/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

> [It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/it-is-easier-to-perceive-error-than-to-find-truth-for-the-former-lies/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

> [There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/there-is-no-patriotic-art-and-no-patriotic-science/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

> [The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/the-connoisseur-of-art-must-be-able-to-appreciate-what-is-simply/)

[Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

> [Nothing is worse than active ignorance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/nothing-is-worse-than-active-ignorance/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

> [Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/let-us-not-dream-that-reason-can-ever-be-popular-passions-emotions/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

> [Our foibles are really what make us lovable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/our-foibles-are-really-what-make-us-lovable/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

> [Instruction does much, but encouragement everything.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/instruction-does-much-but-encouragement-everything/)

[Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

> [Giving is the business of the rich.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/giving-is-the-business-of-the-rich/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

> [Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/just-begin-and-the-mind-grows-heated-continue-and-the-task-will-be/)

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> [I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/i-look-upon-all-four-gospels-as-thoroughly-genuine-for-there-shines/)

[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/)

> [Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/whatever-we-may-say-against-collections-which-present-authors-in-a/)

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